With Ash walking towards the stadium:
"So Ash," Ash heard as the young inventor of the group looked at him while adjusting his glasses. Ash turned to him with a slight quirk of an eyebrow so that Clemont could continue. "What will be your strategy for your battle against Hunter? I know that Hunter will probably not be an easy opponent, in fact from what I have seen I can barely be able to calculate Hunter's power."
Brock then nodded as he came up to the raven haired trainer from the other side, "Clemont is right Ash, you need to think carefully about how you are going to battle because being your first full battle is something that would end up costing you if you are not careful."
Ash just sighed as he stopped and took a deep breath. He just wanted to forget a little about his battle with Trevor and enjoy the beautiful sunlight that the day was bringing to Kalos. The people walking through the concrete was extensive as they piled into the stadium through the entrances. Ash noticed the shadow of the morning casting a large black shadow over the group as Ash then sighed as he turned to the others and said as his scarf waved a little in the wind, "Don't worry guys, I am confident in my abilities and my team. I think I can manage Hunter."
"He's right," Everyone's eyes went to the honey blonde haired girl that had both of her fists pumped and a vibrant smile that shone despite the darkness of the shadow overhead. Serena then put a hand to her hair fedora and smiled even brighter as she said, "Ash will win, I am sure of it! If he doesn't give up until the end and always keeps his head up he is unstoppable!"
Ash felt his heart began to race as he watched Serena's smile causing him to smile himself. Pikachu, who was on Ash's shoulder was also smiling at Serena knowing that she had full confidence in Ash and his team to win the battle. "Serena is right, we have to give Ash the most support that we can!" Bonnie chanted as she grabbed Clemont's hand and began to drag him past the gates through which everyone was walking into the stadium. Ash could not help but smile as he then watched Brock follow close behind them as well.
"Pikachu, are you ready?" Ash asked his electric rodent. The one who instantly smiled at Ash knowing that the battle would be won if confidence was put into everything that is done in the battlefield.
"Ready as always," Ash recoiled at this as he saw Serena begin to walk behind the others in the way towards the stadium. Ash had his mouth open agape as he saw the young performer vanish into the crowd. Ash then smiled as he remembered that his battle would not be in a long time, so he also began to walk into the stadium with the intent of not going to the stands like everyone else, but on the way, he ran into someone:
"Ash," Calem said as he approached Ash from the front in the empty hallways of the hexagonal stadium. Ash smiled as he approached Calem and noticed that the latter had come out of the trainer's lounge. This made Ash believe that Calem would be one of the next to battle.
"Calem, are you up next?" Ash asked.
"Sure am," Calem replied with a pump of his fists. "I am going to have to get through Tierno first though, so wish me luck!" With this, Calem then walked around Ash and up the stairs.
Ash watched Calem disappear into the sounds of a crowd cheering and into the white light that was opaque to what was at the other end. Ash then took a deep breath as he entered the trainer's lounge knowing that his battle would be right after Calem's. Ash looked at the room and noticed that there was some refreshments and a monitor that was displaying what was going on in the battlefield. Ash watched as Calem and Tierno stood across from each other and how the scoreboard featured both trainers with six pokemon available to battle with. Ash decided that he should take the time and do something else so he signaled for Pikachu to stand near the other side of the lounge as he took out all five other pokeballs from his belt and made them flash out.
"Ninja!"
"Gruaw!"
"Dra!"
"Vern!"
"Tile!"
"Pika!"
"Alright guys!" Ash declared with a pumped fist as he then felt relieved that neither Goodra nor Charizard had gone through the roof of the spacious room. "Our first match will not be easy at all, I have seen some of what his team can do, and trust me, Hunter will be a good obstacle for us to begin climbing." All of Ash's pokemon made a battlecry as Ash chuckled, but continued: "This will be a 6 on 6 battle meaning that this is going to be the first battle where I have to rely on everyone of you." Ash then put his head down and rubbed his scarf a little out of nervousness as he sat kneeled down in front of his pokemon. "Look guys, this is our passion and you guys are the most dependable and reliant poke- no… friends that I could ask to battle along side me."
"Pika!" Pikachu chanted as then put himself in between the group and then put his hand out as in to make a chant as an actual team.
Ash smirked as he saw this, so he put his hand on top of Pikachu's. Ash then noticed as a webbed blue hand, green pair of claws also followed by an orange and blood red claw to finish off with one very slimy hand to be put on top of all the hands which made the group laugh at amusement about Goodra's permanent condition of being slimy to the touch. "Are you guys ready?" Ash chanted as he then began to pump his hand up and down. All of the pokemon in the room did the same as Ash then exclaimed: "Gooooooo… TEAM!"
With that, everyone threw their hands into the air with power and great determination while making a battlecry.
Ash knew now, the challenge was about to begin.
A/N: So we are going to begin the chapter with Calem against Tierno and then we are going to shift the perspective to Ash against Hunter. Keep in mind that this battle will not be like you guys expect so get ready!
I am expecting to write a decently long chapter, but I may have to make the individual battles a little shorter, mostly because of how I have Ash vs Hunter planned out.
Anyways, the battle will begin soon! Ash against Hunter is the main focus of this chapter and I expect this battle to be awesome regardless of who wins!
Anyways, without further ado, let's get right into the chapter!
Key of Kalos League:
The announcer won't be referenced as the announcer. Any text in italics that is in quotations is the announcer and assume that it can be heard by everyone in the stadium.
League Scoreboard System:
Bold: In use pokemon/trainer name
Italics: Fainted pokemon
Underline: Resting pokemon
(Pokeball): Unrevealed pokemon
Trainer A: Poke1 Poke2 Poke3 Poke4 Poke5 Poke6 (Active one)
Trainer B: Poke1 Poke2 (Pokeball) Poke4 Poke5 Poke6 (Active one)
Disclaimer: I don't own Pokemon
Chapter 39- A Confusing Strategy To Battle!
At the battlefield:
"Amazing! And Calem's Chesnaught has already done a lot of damage to Delibird!"
Calem looked up at the scoreboard and smirked to see how the battle was going:
Tierno: Ludicolo Raichu Hitmontop Swanna (pokeball) Delibird
Calem: Talonflame (pokeball) (pokeball) (pokeball) (pokeball) Chesnaught
Calem then saw as Delibird was on the ground of the ice field that was being used to battle in. Calem put his arm out to the sound of the cheering crowd and smiled as he put on the next attack, "Finish it off with rollout!"
"Naught!" Chesnaught cried as he began to fly in the direction of the fallen pokemon with an attempt to finish it off.
Tierno widened his eyes as he then noticed that he had to do something before Delibird could get hit. With this, Tierno pumped his fist as he made a dance move and shouted, "Destiny Bond!" Calem's eyes went wide as the ice and flying type made a purple aura surround him as soon as Chesnaught slammed his rolling body into it.
Instead the ref watched as the move had declared Delibird unconscious, but just before he could make his call, Chesnaught got surrounded by a dark aura that suddenly caused him to collapse to the ground as well. The crowd was surprised at this as they raised the volume of their cheering towards the battle. "Both Delibird and Chesnaught are unable to battle, which means that it is a draw!"
"This is unbelievable! Tierno managed to defeat Chesnaught by using destiny bond at the last second, which is a move that knocks down the opponent with the pokemon that had originally fallen!"
Tierno and Calem both recalled their pokemon as Calem smiled over at Tierno, "Wow, you really got me there, I did not expect that."
"It was just a combination of moving and grooving!" Tierno smiled as he gave a twirl around his trainer platform and then put a pokeball out on his hand and threw it, "My last Pokemon… Go! Blastoise!"
"Toise!" Blastoise cried as he materialized from the pokeball that was thrown into the ice. Blastoise then stopped his foot down on the ice to intimidate Calem, but the jet black haired trainer found it amusing to see such a powerful pokemon in front of him.
"So, you want to go all out?" Calem asked as he then threw a pokeball out into the ice. "Go Gallade!" The pokeball arched in the air with great amounts of power before opening to a flash of light that caused the bipedal blade pokemon to stand with his right blade in front of him with a powerful stance. The referee then signaled to resume the battle, and Calem made the first move, "Use psycho cut!"
"Use hydro cannon!" Tierno instantly retaliated as the stands cheered on the two attacks in the hexagonal shaped stadium that had sun pouring down on the field to make the ice reflect. Blastoise launched two balls of water that headed in the direction of Gallade, but the green bipedal pokemon made his blades glow pink and thus sliced into the hydro cannon to then begin to run and jump into the air while not slipping and launch two disk shaped pink blades at Blastoise. "Quick Blastoise use skull bash!"
"Toise!" Blastoise then made himself withdraw into his shell as the two attacks slammed into him with not doing any damage before then coming out of the shell and begin charging through the ice towards Gallade.
"Gallade use stone edge to stop it from getting any nearer!" Calem commanded with slight panic. Gallade quickly made his white blade slam into the ground thus making a barrage of blue rocks shoot out from the ground and begin to go in the direction of the Blastoise. Blastoise closed the gap with the rocks, but instead of taking damage, he began to overpower the rocks and smash right through. Calem gritted his teeth as he noticed how Blastoise slammed right into Gallade who was standing still.
"Gall… ade…" Gallade grunted on his knees as Blastoise returned back to being in front of his trainer while performing a break dancing move in the ground that Tierno was doing at the same time.
"Amazing, and Gallade has been hit by a massive skull bash! What will Calem do at this point."
Calem smiled as he then revealed his watch this making he stands begin to quiet down. The trainer then touched his keystone that began to make prongs react with the prongs that came from the mega stone around Gallade's neck. "GALLADE! MEGA EVOLVE!" Gallade then made a battle cry as he began to glow white with the effect of growing larger and more powerful features. As soon as the light died down, Calem noticed that there was now a Gallade with really large blades while also having a cape like structure around his torso.
"Unbelievable! And Gallade mega evolved into Mega Gallade!"
The crowd roared at this as Tierno and Calem smirked at each other with Tierno putting his arms out, "We don't need mega evolution, Blastoise use ice beam!" Blastoise quickly got to work by making his canons portray a light blue ball that then shot out as a light blue ray that had a freezing path.
Calem pumped his fist, "Run and dodge through it!" Gallade began to run as he saw the first ice beam come. He dodged right and kept running with blinding speed as the ice beam made a little nick of ice on the field. Gallade then dodged left followed by jumping into mid air to avoid two for freezing attacks from Blastoise. "Now use leaf blade!"
"Gall… ADE!" Gallade shouted as he downcut on Blastoise's head with great amount of power coming from green blades. The blue turtle with the red shell recoiled to be in front of his trainer and get up slowly after the attack to which the crowd was chanting with excitement.
"Blastoise! Use rapid spin!" Tierno commanded as he extended his fist. Blastoise made himself spin at a blinding speed and then began to charge the Gallade that was waiting patiently in front of him. Gallade seemed to smirk at this as he also put his arm out.
"Jump and then use psycho cut!"
"Gal…" Gallade jumped into the air and made his blades glow purple as the Blastoise passed below him with a large speed that missed. Gallade then swung his arms before crossing them and hitting Blastoise with a very powerful pair of purple blades that made Blastoise fall in front of Tierno very dazed and barely being able to get up.
"Blastoise no!" Tierno panicked as he then saw as Calem went for his finishing move.
"Use close combat!" Calem shouted with a victory stance as Gallade instantly at blinding speed appeared in front of Blastoise with white limbs which then slammed right into Blastoise.
"Toise!" Hit in the head.
"Ade!" Strikes the abdomen.
"Toise…." Blastoise then fell in front of Tierno with a large dust cloud around him and grunted: "Blastoise…" After this, Blastoise did not get back up.
"Blastoise is unable to battle," The ref declared as he raised his hand. "Gallade wins which means that the win goes to Calem from Vaniville Town!"
With that the crowd cheered and Calem's face showed off that he had won on the scoreboard.
The trainer's lounge:
Ash watched the monitor with a serious face as he felt Greninja's pokeball on his belt. That was as definitely his goal of the tournament, no doubt. With this, Ash smirked at the monitor as he watched Gallade turn to his original form and Calem along with Tierno share a friendly handshake before turning back to the door that was behind him.
"Pikachu, are you ready?" Ash asked his pokemon on his shoulder as he made his way through the door and went up the the stairs that lead towards the dugout.
On the way, Ash saw as Calem headed his way and crossed him. Ash smiled at Calem as they made slight eye contact. After that, the two crossed and began to move away from each other. Ash could hear as the crowd was cheering louder and louder as he got closer to the trainer platform.
As soon as Ash's vision stepped into the light. His vision went white.
"Ash!"
At the stands:
"Awesome battle Calem!" Shauna praised as she saw Calem come towards them after coming through the exit from the stands. Tierno was also from him, and some attention was being brought to the two trainers from the other people near the group since they just saw the battle. Shauna also noticed Tierno and smiled warmingly towards him, "You did well too Tierno."
"Thanks," Both trainers said in unison as they took their seats and looked onwards onto the hexagonal stadium. It was also evident that most of seats were taken as when looking around the large sets of seats were covered with many people. Looking at the scoreboard, there was the names of Ash and Hunter along with the five empty pokeballs that indicated to who was going to be used as well.
"Guys! Look! Ash is coming!" Bonnie shouted as she stood up and began to wave along with the others while Dedenne and Squishy also made their chants. "GO ASH!"
"Good luck Ash," Clemont said softly with his hands on his knees watching Hunter stand across from the raven haired trainer. At the same time Brock also yelled his wishes towards Ash to win the battle, of course Ash and Pikachu would not hear it, but it was worth it.
Serena gripped her ribbon as she looked down at the arena and then looked up at the sun to see the roof of the stadium with the sun beaming down on the arena and the large gap between Ash and Hunter.
"This will be a battle between Ash and Hunter! I am extremely excited for this!"
"Good luck Ash, show them!" Tierno and Trevor chanted towards the raven haired trainer. The former forgetting about his recent knock out from the tournament to cheer on for the winner.
Calem looked at Ash with a serious face and smirked. He knew that if there was going to be anyone that was capable of beating Hunter, it had to be Ash.
At the battle:
"Ash, I am looking forward to this, beating you here will be just another step to get to the top," Hunter told Ash with a bright smile on his face.
"Hehe," Ash chuckled as he then rubbed his nose and looked up towards Hunter, "I am planning on winning this!" Ash then pumped his fist. "Let's make this a battle we would never forget! No holding back!"
"Agreed Ash, I don't want it any other way!" Hunter replied while also pumping his fist mirroring Ash.
The scenery moved with a smooth gesture as it showed the sun beaming down between the two trainers as the field came up between the two trainers. The rock field came up and Ash and Hunter smirked at each other as Pikachu and Eevee went down from their respective trainers and joined them in the trainer platforms.
The referee then looked at both trainers and said: "This will be a 6 on 6 pokemon battle. Substitutions are allowed and the battle will be over when all pokemon on either side are unable to continue. Furthermore, after three pokemon on either side are unable battle, there will be an intermission to change fields." The referee then raised his hand and shouted. "Reveal your first pokemon!"
"Zapdos let's go!" Hunter commanded as he threw a pokeball outwards into the air. The pokeball then shattered open causing the flashing light to materialize into the electric and flying legendary pokemon. Zapdos made a battle cry that made Ash's ears go on fire because of how powerful it was along with the amount of electricity that was crackling around the pokemon.
"And Hunter decides to lead with his Zapdos!"
The crowd cheered in approval as Ash smirked at this. Ash then took a pokeball from his belt and extended it while expanding the size: "Charizard I choose you!"
"GRUAW!" Charizard grunted as he landed in front of Ash with a powerful sound that even Ash knew could rival Zapdos' cry. Hunter watched in amazement as the fire and flying type pokemon landed across from him and gently touching the ground with his orange legs and the mega stone on the harness glistened in the sun light.
"So it will be a battle of Charizard against Zapdos! I am psyched to see who wins this exchange!"
The scene then whipped around to show off the large hexagonal stadium as the referee put up his hands. The dark spots being lit up by hexagonal lights along with the scoreboard that now updated to portray the pokemon that are going to battling:
Ash: (pokeball) (pokeball) (pokeball) (pokeball) (pokeball) Charizard
Hunter: (pokeball) (pokeball) (pokeball) (pokeball) (pokeball) Zapdos
"Let the battle…
BEGIN!"
Battle music begin! Ash (Charizard) vs Hunter (Zapdos):
"The first move will go to us!" Hunter declared as he pointed his finger forward. "Zapdos start things off with heat wave!"
"Doooooossss!" Zapdos cried as the legendary electric and flying type made his wings flap causing a wave of fire energy to disperse in the direction of Ash. The energy quickly collided with Charizard, who put his hands in front of him to shield himself, but with little to no success as the fire and flying type felt his knee touch the ground.
"And Hunter starts things off with an extremely powerful heat wave! It is doing damage despite the typing of Charizard!"
"This could be trouble…" Ash gritted his teeth as he also shielded his face from the embers flowing in his direction. Feeling the extensive heat was something that he knew could be a burden for many of his pokemon, but he thought that maybe it could be possible to use the wind against the movement of the blaze. Ash then put his arm out and said, "Charizard, I know you can pull through this!" Ash then saw as Charizard looked back at him and nodded. "Fly into the air and use dragon claw!"
"Gruaw!" Charizard shouted as he flapped his wings and jumped into the air and up to above the wave of inferno to climb up to the sun above him. Charizard then let off another audible roar to everyone that was watching as he summoned two scaly blades of energy on his two hands.
Hunter looked up with a serious face and pointed towards Charizard, "Zapdos, get up there and use thunderbolt!" Zapdos instantly stopped his blazing hell fire and flapped his wings to make himself ascend to attempt and be on par with Charizard. Zapdos then made himself crackle in electricity before shooting lightning towards the fire type.
"Block it!" Ash commanded with urgency as he saw the risk of getting hit. Charizard roared as he made his green claws stop the lightning from causing to much damage. Ash then put his arm out as he shouted, "Go for it!"
"GRUAW!" Charizard shouted as he made his way through the thunderbolt and slashed Zapdos right on the stomach to then cause Zapdos to fall towards the ground in pain.
"And Ash has Zapdos on the run already! This is amazing!"
"Now use flare blitz!" Ash ordered while pumping both of his fists. Charizard made himself glow with a blue infernal aura as he then began to charge against the Zapdos that was still dazed from the previous attack.
"Dodge it!" Was the command that Hunter issued as Zapdos barely dodged the attack that was coming by doing a semi barrel roll and falling back towards the ground. Zapdos began to fall before then retracting his wings to pick up speed, then right before hitting the rocky battle field, Zapdos pulled up and caused a lot of dust to be picked up on the field before Hunter then making the next attack: "Use wild charge!"
"ZAPDOS!" Zapdos shouted as he made himself glow in electricity before charging head on against the fire burning Charizard.
"Clash clash clash!" that was the sound that was heard as the two pokemon collided in mid air numerous times. This included both of them encircling each other before flying into each other again and again. Just then, both pokemon separated as they then flew at the level of the stands on the stadium.
At the stands:
"Swoosh!" Night and Leaf both recoiled at the shockwave of the wind that happened when Zapdos flew over head. Night then turned around with his mouth agape as he noticed Zapdos curve up at a command from Hunter that was heard through the speaker system to be steel wing. Night then witnessed as Zapdos made his wings glow white and larger before then curving around to be inverted and straightening out to dive towards Charizard who had just been commanded to use seismic toss.
"Whoa…" Leaf gasped as she noticed how Charizard and Zapdos collided with Charizard trying to hold onto Zapdos' white glowing wings before both pokemon then crashed into the ground with a large thump that made the dust on the rocks pick up.
"Amazing," Serena muttered from the other side of the stadium as she put herself on the edge of her seat with a racing heartbeat. She felt like this was so far the most intense battle of the entire Kalos League and from looking down towards the trainers, she noticed they were enjoying them. Serena looked at Hunter and noticed his smile, it looked like he was having a lot of fun. Turning to Ash, Serena noticed a genuine smile as a shock wave from the previous collision made his scarf wave around him along with Pikachu trying to hold on in order to not get blown away. Serena then put a hand on her ribbon and wished the best of luck to Ash knowing that this would not be easy.
"Go Ash go!" Bonnie chanted from next to Clemont as she watched the battle unfold under her.
"I can't believe Charizard is standing up so well against a legendary pokemon," Trevor said with a smile as he looked at Charizard and Zapdos exchange dragon claw and steel wing on the ground. At this Shauna and Tierno nodded as Brock and Calem put their hands to their chins wondering how Ash could pull it off with Hunter.
At the battle:
"Zapdos finish this off with thunderbolt!" Hunter called out as he watched both pokemon slowly rise up to the air. Zapdos made his wings generate electricity before then firing it off at the ground. The electricity made a zigzag motion across the ground before reaching dangerously close position to Charizard.
"Dodge it Charizard!"
"Gruaw!" Charizard grunted as the fire type flew into the sky with the intent of not getting hit by the electricity. As Charizard flew into the sky, Zapdos shot numerous thunderbolts in the direction of Charizard, but Charizard kept dodging and weaving from side to side and doing loops just as the crackling beam was about to hit. Suddenly, Zapdos stopped and took a closer aim before making a thunderbolt go in the direction of Charizard's path. "Gruaw…." Charizard grunted as he was struck and began to fall to the ground with smoke coming from his wings.
"Charizard has been hit by a super effective attack! This is really bad for Ash!"
"Charizard charge up another dragon claw and prepare to pull up!" Ash ordered with a serious face as Charizard's eyes widened. Ash then narrowed his eyes to see Charizard pull up with his green claws crossed in front of him in the direction of Zapdos.
"Dodge it!" Hunter called out while extending his arm. Zapdos got to work fast and began to fly around Charizard, but Ash would not let up with this.
"Charizard concentrate and hit to your right!" Ash exclaimed through the cheering. Charizard stopped moving and only flapped his wings as he then saw something glint from the sun above, with this he turned to his right and slashed his blades into the abdomen of Zapdos that was attempting to fly around.
"Dos…" Zapdos cried as he fell to the ground with a slightly dazed look on his face.
Hunter saw this and quickly reached for his belt to grab a pokeball while saying, "Zapdos return!" Everyone then watched as Zapdos got recalled back into his red energy and was shown in the scoreboard outside of the large icon meant for the pokemon that are in use. Hunter then put the pokeball back in his belt as he watched Charizard fall back to be in front of Ash with a large battle cry. Hunter then grabbed another pokeball from his belt and threw it outwards. "Come on out Electivire!"
"Vire!" Electivire chanted as he fell in front of Hunter with his knee down on the rocky arena while looking up at Charizard. "ELECTIVIRE!" Electivire grunted as he began to charge up electricity by extending his arm and moving then in circular motion.
"And Hunter performs a substitution. Now it is Electivire that is battling, the advantage is still going to Hunter and Electivire!"
The crowd cheered as Ash then made the first move, "That does not matter!" Ash then narrowed his eyes as he crossed his fist in front of his face. "Use flare blitz!" Charizard got to work as he made himself glow a blue fire aura and then make himself charge Electivire by flapping his wings and gaining speed from flying in the air.
"Use thunderpunch!" Hunter retaliated by putting his hand in front of his face. Hunter then witnessed as Electivire began to charge up electricity on his fists before running towards the large flying type that was in front of him.
"VIRE!"
"GRUAW!" The gap then closed on a stalemate of a large explosion that was bound to happen. The two attacks began to make sparks fly out in all directions before causing a giant vortex of fire and electricity to spark out in all directions, suddenly, Charizard and Electivire both fell back to be in front of their trainers with electricity surging through them as the shockwave made both trainer's clothes ruffle through the air.
"What an amazing collision between thunder punch and flare blitz! I have never seen anything like it before!
Ash gritted his teeth as he looked up at the sky and noticed that Charizard was getting very tired from the constant collisions of super effective hits, so he decided that he would finish things right here: "Charizard use dragon claw!"
"Gruaw!" Charizard shouted as he made his claws glow green and lengthen as they then went straight in the direction of Electivire who had his two electric tails behind him suspended helplessly in the air.
Hunter then smirked as he pumped his fists, "This is it, Electivire grab Charizard in your tails!" Electivire swung his tails around and with a swift motion managed to whip them around the two arms that Charizard was about to slash Electivire with. Charizard then made his claws retract in panic as he tried to pull away and away.
Ash noticed as Hunter was smiling and knew what was coming, "Charizard pull yourself out of there quick!"
"Gruaw!" Charizard shouted as he began to ruffle and move around to attempt and make Electivire let go. Electivire swung around and around and hit the rocky ground a couple of times, but the electric tails would not let go despite all of Ash's efforts to release Charizard.
"Hey Ash, how do you like this? Use THUNDER!" Hunter shouted with a victorious voice as Electivire began to move his arms in circular motion, gathering electricity. Then Electivire made his electricity crackle on the surface of the electric type's skin and begin to electrocute Charizard.
"VIIIIIIIIIIRRRRRRRRREEEEE!" Electivire screeched as he made his electricity consume Charizard without stopping. Charizard grunted in pain as he fell to his knees and tried to move around the best he could, but there was no way that the thunder would be stopped.
"Charizard is being staggered! Thunder is being effective on Charizard!"
"Pikachu pika!"
"Charizard!" Ash's voice cried with a panicked voice as Charizard's eyes shot open and began to make his wings flap into the air. Charizard managed to then swing around Electivire into the air above him as Charizard then fell on the ground barely able to get up as electricity surged through him.
"Use thunderpunch!" Hunter called out as Electivire charged up his fist with electricity and began to fall down towards Charizard. Ash watched in awe as the electric punch struck Charizard right on the top of the head and caused dust to pick up around Charizard. When the dust cleared, Charizard was on the ground unconscious thus attracting the cheers of the stands.
"Charizard is unable to battle, Electivire wins!" The referee declared as the scoreboard darkened Charizard's icon.
"And for the first time in this tournament, Charizard has gone down to the power of both Electivire and Zapdos!"
Ash sighed as he pulled out Charizard's pokeball and recalled Charizard back into his pokeball. "You were great Charizard, take a good rest," Ash said as he then put Charizard's pokeball back on his belt. Ash then noticed as Hunter also recalled back Electivire to its pokeball.
At the stands:
"Oh man, Charizard lost," Bonnie sighed as she reclined back in her seat with a sad expression on her face.
"It seems like Hunter has been trying to use two pokemon to knock down one of Ash's maybe that is his strategy," Clemont replied with a hand on his chin.
"I think that the only way out of this is to successfully tire out Hunter's pokemon," Brock implied as he then looked towards Calem who also had a pensive hand on his chin.
Calem turned to Brock and nodded, "There has to be a way for Hunter's pokemon to be defeated, it might take a lot of resistance." At this Shauna nodded as Tierno crossed his arms in worry along with Trevor.
"I still believe Ash will win, something about him is impossible to imitate," Serena said as she gripped her ribbon with more intensity.
Leaf on the other side of the stadium was smiling as she pumped her fist and said, "Yes! He made it past Charizard!"
Night chuckled next to her, but then Night's eyes rested on Ash, who seemed to have his attention on the scoreboard. It was as if Ash knew something was up with the way Hunter was battling.
At the battle:
"Go Tyranitar!" Hunter shouted as he then threw a pokeball that caused the large rock and dark type pokemon to appear in front of Ash, which then whipped up some dust around the rocks and ended up making a sandstorm appear throughout the stadium. Hunter smirked at this as Ash threw his own pokeball.
"Greninja I am counting on you!" Ash chanted as he threw his pokeball out to reveal the blue blurb of the ninja frog appear in front of him with crossed arms.
"And this is a battle of Greninja and Tyranitar! This is going to be so intense, speed against power!"
"Alright, start this off by using stealth rocks!" Hunter chanted as he saw Tyranitar let out a large cry before then making a lot of rocks disperse among the field and beginning to coat the rocky field.
Ash gritted his teeth as he saw this and muttered under his breath as he saw the sandstorm consuming his visok in front of him, "There has to be a way to get rid of this sandstorm… That's it!" Ash then looked onward into the sandstorm and said, "Greninja can you hear me?"
"Gren!" Greninja nodded back as Ash then said the rest of the instructions.
"Use water shuriken all over the battlefield! It should clear off the sand!" Ash said with a victory tone. Greninja nodded and got to work as he reached for his shuriken markings and gathered a couple of shurikens that he launched at the ground. The blue disks dispersed among the ground and caused some blue watery explosions that made the sandstorm disperse and get completely eliminated from any sort of flying debris. Ash then narrowed his eyes as he watched how the green armored pseudo legendary was looking around in confusion like a sitting duck. This made Ash make his next move to a Greninja that was in front of him with his arms at his sides, "Greninja use aqua blade, let's go!"
"And Greninja's amazing strategy has lead to the entire sandstorm being cancelled off! Amazing!"
"Gren!" Greninja whispered as he then made the dark blue kunai appear on his right hand. Greninja then jumped into the air and began to swing around the blade as he was falling towards Tyranitar on the other side of the arena. "NINJA!"
"Use crunch and stop it!" Hunter responded as the armored pokemon made himself grow a pair of mandibles before chomping them into Greninja's water blade. Tyranitar then whipped a slightly panicked water and dark ninja around before letting go of his attack and making Greninja fall in front of Ash with one hand on the rocks while slightly sliding back. Hunter then put his hand out and smirked as he then began to look at Greninja, "Take this Ash, use stone edge!"
"RRRRAAAWWWRRR!" Tyranitar cried as he slammed his fist into the ground and began to cause blue rocks to shoot out of the ground in the direction of Greninja.
"Dodge it!" Ash shouted as he saw the attack. At this Ash watched as Greninja jumped into the air to avoid the barrage of rocks as Ash then put his hands out. "Water shuriken once more!"
"Gren… NINJA!" Greninja shouted as he made his water disks launch of easily in the direction of Tyranitar. Tyranitar put his hand in front of his face as he took the hits from the numerous water projected that were shot, but the attacks still made decent amounts of damage as Tyranitar fell in front of Hunter with a slightly amused look for the front ninja pokemon.
"And Ash hits another water shuriken, but this time of Tyranitar instead of the rocky field!"
"Tyranitar are you alright?"
"Rawr!"
"Alright then, good job for now, return!" Hunter said as he recalled his Tyranitar back into his pokeball. Hunter then pulled out another pokeball and smiled as he threw this one out, "Go Blaziken!" The pokeball opened in the air and threw it a flashing light materialized into a fire and fighting chicken based pokemon that stood there with fire streaking down the limbs.
"And another switch from Hunter! Is this possibly his strategy?"
"Ziken!" Blaziken called out with a strong volume as Ash and Greninja looked amused.
"So a Blaziken huh?" Ash then looked at Greninja, "Are you ready for this?"
"Ninja!" Greninja nodded with a smile under his tongue as Ash then looked up and to his right to see the illuminated scoreboard that had the sun's reflection on it. Ash then looked at the progression of the battle:
Ash: Charizard (pokeball) (pokeball) (pokeball) (pokeball) Greninja
Hunter: (pokeball) (pokeball) Zapdos Electivire Tyranitar Blaziken
Ash decided to ignore the fact that he had less pokemon than Hunter while then pumping his fist, "Greninja run towards Blaziken!"
"Gren!" Greninja began as he leaned forward with his arms behind him and began to spring towards the fire type that was in front of him. Ash narrowed his eyes as he watched Greninja begin to make his way closed to Blaziken. Ash then clenched his fists as he waited patiently for the right time to strike. Continuously every second telling himself that he would attack once Hunter makes a move.
"Ash is just going to play the bait game here! I am wondering what Ash has planned for Greninja!"
"If he's coming right for us, then we will just attack!" Hunter declared as he made a cross in front of his face. "Use blaze kick!" At the last part Hunter retracted his leg and shot it outward as in doing a roundhouse kick in mid air. Blaziken ignited himself and Ash witnessed how the fire and fighting type jumped into the air and aimed right at Greninja with a combusted leg.
"ZIKEN!" Blaziken cried as he began to close in his distance on the rocky ground and Greninja. Ash knew he had little time to react as the attack was eminent and from watching how fast Blaziken was, Ash knew that he had to counter the attack instead of attempting to prevent it.
"Greninja use aerial ace!" Ash exclaimed as he pumped his fists in front of him. Greninja looked up on the falling Blaziken and saw the incoming attack glowing brightly in the air as it approached. With a quick motion Greninja made his right leg glow white with aerobatic power and then kicked off from the ground with his left foot. With that he then extended his right foot and met the blaze kick head on. Ash noticed how when the attacks collided, it caused a stalemate in which there were sparks flying. Through this, he knew he would have to put all of his faith in Greninja if he was to pull through. "Don't give up Greninja! Use aerial ace with your free leg!"
"GREN!" Greninja charged up as he made his left leg glow white as well. "NINJA!" Greninja shouted as he then slammed his other leg into the abdomen of Blaziken which then caused a shockwave to ripple through the rocky arena as the two pokemon fell in front of their trainers on both feet with one hand on the ground to prevent from sliding to far back.
"And both pokemon show their determination in battle which clearly ended in a good hit for Ash, but it seems that both pokemon can still go on!"
"Jump into the air Greninja!" Ash ordered. Greninja instantly jumped up and gained a lot of air from one jump, it was clearly something that Hunter was not expecting as he flinched a little as he saw the action that was being taken.
"Blaziken use flamethrower!" Hunter quickly commanded with his fist out in the air.
"ZIKEN!" Blaziken exclaimed as he then charged up all of his power and expelled it in a jet beam of flames that streaked across the air smoothly and accurately about to slam into Greninja that was overhead.
Ash watched this with narrowed eyes as he then pumped one fist and then crossed his arm down in the direction of the ground, "Use aqua blade!"
"Gren…." Greninja grunted as he made his dark blue kunai blades show up in front of him as he then put the blades in front of his arm. "NINJA!" Greninja shouted in an aquatic voice as he began to work his way through the fire beam by slicing through with the water blades in the direction of Blaziken. Blaziken's eyes gleamed a little as the two blades sliced right through his chest leaving a long navy blue shadow of the path of the aqua blades as Greninja stood behind Blaziken while making his aquatic blades turn into water and fall fluidly to the rocky ground. Greninja then crossed his arms as he said: "Ninja…"
"BLAZIKEN!" Blaziken grunted in pain as he began to feel the after effect of the aqua blade and had an explosion envelop him from all around.
"Amazing! Greninja's aqua blade attack is doing its effects on Blaziken!"
"Blaziken no!" Hunter shouted in panic as he witnessed Blaziken get back up with a corrupt pose while panting heavily. "Blaziken can you still go on?" Hunter asked with a concerned expression.
"Ziken…" Blaziken nodded weakly as he then turned towards the frog ninja pokemon in front of him and then put his arms out in a combative stance.
"Alright then!" Hunter shouted as he then put his arms out, "Use flamethrower one more time!"
"Double team!"
"ZIKEN!" Blaziken cried as he shot the beam of flames at the Greninja that was in front of him standing still. Blaziken made his barrage of hell begin to approach Greninja, but then the water and dark type made a cross with his arms in front of his face and began to split into many copies of himself.
"Gren… Gren… Gren…" Greninja said as he split off into many copies that covered the rocky arena. Blaziken maintained his fire concentrated at the center, but at the command of Hunter, he made all of the copies begin to disappear by aiming the flamethrower at the copies that were blinking slightly.
"Where is Greninja?" Hunter asked in a worryingly tone as he noticed that the copies were all gone. Hunter then noticed that Ash was smirking at the other side of the battlefield as his scarf slightly waved at a small gust of wind. Ash then crossed his arms as a small amount of rocks kicked up around the arena in a fast motion that turned Blaziken and Hunter's attention to the sudden sightings.
"NOW!" Ash shouted with confidence while pumping both of his fists.
"GREN GREN GREN GRENINJA!" Greninja cried as he then began to run around Blaziken with great amounts of power and speed while swiftly throwing ninja stars made of water at the opponent. Hunter's eyes widened as he witnessed how Greninja was moving around Blaziken with great amounts of speed while clearly overwhelming the chicken like pokemon.
"Greninja has just locked up Blaziken! What can Hunter even do in this situation?"
"Blaziken return!" Hunter suddenly called out as he recalled Blaziken back to his pokeball. Greninja stopped in front of Ash panting hard as Hunter then reached into his belt and pulled out another pokeball while throwing it out with great power. "Let's go Feraligatr!" Hunter called out as when the pokeball opened it revealed a large jawed alligator like pokemon that was clearly a water type. Ash then took a closer look to see that Feraligatr was a quiet pokemon that seemed to have a slick nature. The scoreboard updated again along with the crowd cheering more violently than ever for the new battle that is about to unfold.
"And Hunter makes another substitution, this time into a Feraligatr!"
"Greninja, let's go at this with caution," Ash said as the frog ninja pokemon in front of him turned to the raven haired trainer and nodded. Ash then smiled as he looked down and put a hand on his cap. "You know Hunter, I am reading very well your strategy."
"Huh?" Hunter slightly gasped at this as Ash then had a little bit of wind blow through him and move his scarf.
"Switch all you want Hunter, if it is the plan you are going for, then do it," Ash responded as he then looked up and smirked, "But keep in mind that I am the one that will be taking this win!" Ash then looked at Greninja and smiled, "Greninja, we are going for this together right?"
"Ninja!" Greninja replied with a fist pump.
"Alright then!" Ash shouted as he put out his fist. "Start this off with water shuriken!"
"Gren!" Greninja reached for the shuriken markings on his legs before then clapping his hands together with the water energy and then launching the attack at the water type in front of him. Hunter watched carefully as he then thought out of a plan to counter the water shuriken.
"Crunch! Crush it with your jaw!"
"FERA!" Feraligatr cried as he aligned his jaw with the shuriken while making the dark mandibles appear. Feraligatr then cut down on the shuriken and that caused it to explode in front of his face thus making a small amount of smoke consume him that instantly faded. "Ligatr," Feraligatr smiled said with an amused tone towards Greninja.
"Using crunch Feraligatr was able to completely stop water shuriken from getting anywhere! Amazing!"
"Now Feraligatr use brick break!" Hunter exclaimed as he put his fist out. Feraligatr quickly made his fist glow white and then he began to run in the direction of Greninja.
"Counter it with aqua blade!" Ash retaliated with his hand to the side. Greninja summoned his dark blue blades and then began to run with great speed in the direction of Feraligatr. Feraligatr downcut as Greninja performed an uppercut at the direction of the brick break. The two attacks stayed in a stalemate for a second before the brick break was able to push down Greninja. "Greninja!" Ash shouted with worry at seeing how the frog ninja pokemon's head slammed into the rocky ground. Ash heard as the cheers got louder to egg on the fight. "Greninja get out of there!" Greninja slowly tried to get up, but then he sank to his knees in pain, it was clear that battling three pokemon was taking its toll on the water and dark type.
"Oh no! Greninja seems to be tired from the constant battling!"
"Use ice punch!" Hunter shouted.
"LIGATR!" Feraligatr exclaimed as the alligator water type made his freezing fist and then slammed it right into the abdomen on Greninja. Greninja crossed his arms in front of him, but as he got hit, the ice began to freeze over Greninja's body thus making the attack leave Greninja in a vulnerable position to which it was impossible to move. Ash's eyes widened at this as then gritted his teeth.
"Greninja has been frozen solid! This is bad news for Ash!"
"Finish it off with brick break!" Hunter ordered as he put a hand out with two fingers pointed forward.
"Fera… LIGATR!" Feraligatr cried as he made his white downcut shatter all of the ice with a swift move that left Ash and Pikachu's mouth hanging. When Greninja was shown, Greninja fell to the ground unconscious from the super effective attack.
"Greninja is unable to battle," The referee declared as Hunter was shown with a pumped fist. "Feraligatr wins!"
"And Feraligatr pulls off quite an amazing win on Greninja! What will Ash do now that he is down two pokemon?"
"LIGATR!" The water type starter from Johto shouted as he then was seen turning into red energy meaning that Hunter was recalling him.
"Greninja return," Ash said as he recalled his frog ninja pokemon. "You did a good job, you managed to weaken Hunter's pokemon some more." To this Greninja's pokeball gave a little shake to which Ash smiled.
At the stands:
"YES! Greninja is down!" Leaf celebrated as she grabbed Jolteon from Night's lap and began to hug the spiky electric type with a lot of strength that left Jolteon becoming cyanotic from the lack of oxygen. "Hunter is going to win! He will!"
"Hunter is doing well to have the lead, but I would not always claim victory until the battle is finished," Night replied as he put a hand on his chin and looked at Ash. "Something about Ash's pokemon is very unique about him, If I were Hunter I would definitely be careful."
"So Greninja went down," Calem muttered with slight disappointment. He had been really excited to see that Greninja would win Ash some battles, but it seems like Greninja was nothing more than just a fall guy like Charizard: Something that Trevor was kind of salty about since Calem could see Trevor clenching his fists in worry.
"Ash is in such a bad spot, he is down two pokemon, and not to mention that he is down his mega evolution and…" Brock then looked down at the arena through the cheering crowd and shouted at the top of his lungs. "ASH IT'S TIME TO MAKE A COMEBACK!"
"YEA ASH! ACTUALLY WIN THIS!" Bonnie chanted with Brock trying to make Ash hear those words.
Clemont looked down at the battlefield and narrowed his eyes as his glasses reflected Hunter's figure with Eevee on them, "This trainer is not messing around if he is able to get Ash down two of his strongest pokemon."
Serena looked down at the battle with her fingers ruffling through her ribbon as her eyes glistened in the sunlight above, "Ash…" She muttered as she then flexed her hand a closed it into a fist that applied pressure on the ribbon.
At the battle:
"Hmmm… What do I do now…" Ash asked himself as he looked on at Hunter. Ash then went wide eyed as he then came up with a plan to defeat Hunter's next pokemon. Ash knew it now, he had only four pokemon to which he could use to take down the team that Ash already knew.
"Pikapi!" Ash turned to his right to see Pikachu tugging on his pant leg. "Pika pika!" Pikachu kept smirking with a pumped fist that Ash knew all too well as a sign that said to put him in.
Ash shook his head and patted his friend's head and said, "Don't worry Pikachu, you will get to shine later in the battle, right now I need to find an opening… Also." Ash looked at the field and saw traces of rocks on the ground and then turned to Pikachu and said, "I don't want you to take some damage just by going into battle."
"Pika pikachu…." PIkachu sighed as he lowered his ears and stepped back a little.
Ash looked up at the scoreboard and then looked at Hunter with a smirk. 'So he has a Zapdos, Electivire, Tyranitar, Blaziken, Feraligatr, and Eevee? That is a very strong team, but that means that I will have to give it my all if I want to win!'
"Tyranitar let's go!" Hunter exclaimed as he threw Tyranitar's pokeball back out again. The large pseudo legendary appeared in front of Hunter with a great roar that made a sandstorm whip up once again around the battle field due to sand stream.
Ash knew what he had to go with how, "Go Sceptile!" Ash exclaimed as he reached into his belt and pulled out Sceptile's pokeball.
"TILE!" Sceptile shouted as he entered the battlefield and stood on top of the rocks while chewing on his twig. "Sceptile," Sceptile grunted in pain as he felt a group of a couple stones come out of the ground and pierce him. Ash gritted his teeth at this as he remembered about the stealth rocks, but then he remembered that he needed to battle in the sandstorm, so he then narrowed his eyes as he thought of a strategy.
"And Ash now goes with Sceptile! But stealth rocks is already causing trouble for Ash, what can he do?"
The referee then resumed the battle and Hunter took the first move, "Use hyper beam!"
"RAWRRR!" Tyranitar beamed as he shot the dark and draconic beam towards Sceptile. Sceptile bent his legs in preparation of Ash's command as Ash made an easy command that Sceptile would understand at any moment.
"Jump up Sceptile!" Ash exclaimed while putting his hand up into the air. Inside the sandstorm as the beam was coming, Sceptile crouched his legs and jumped into the air. The beam passed right below Sceptile and crashed right in front of Ash. Sceptile though, he reached a really high altitude that allowed Ash to make the move that he needed to. "Use leaf storm on the sand storm and redirect it away from the battlefield!"
"Scep…" Sceptile charged up as he aimed his tail towards the sandstorm below him. "TILE!" Sceptile shot the beam of grassy wind out towards the sandstorm and instantly the vortex began to make a tornado like appearance that caused a wind that shook the trainer's clothing. The leaf storm also picked up the sand as it was then dispersed out towards the direction of Tyranitar.
"Tar!" Tyranitar grunted as he fell on his back from pain due to taking the hit.
"And Ash not only got rid of the sandstorm, but also used it to attack Tyranitar! Amazing!"
"We are not finished here," Ash declared as he pumped his fist. "Use leaf blade!" Sceptile then dived in the direction of Tyranitar by making the lateral part of his arms glow two green blades which then crashed right into Tyranitar. The attacker then went back to his trainer as Tyranitar slowly stood back up.
"Stone edge!" Hunter declared as Tyranitar slammed his fist into the ground which then caused the large rock and dark type to send a barrage of light blue rocks in the direction of Sceptile.
"Jump!"
"Tile!" Sceptile cried as he jumped into the air with his hands out in his sides to attempt to get the air advantage on Tyranitar, who completely missed the stone edge earlier because of the way that Sceptile dodged the attack.
"No way…" Hunter gasped as he then put his fist out with a confident pose, "Use your tail!" Tyranitar whirled around his tail to then break apart the light blue stones from the ground and launch shards in the direction of Sceptile.
Sceptile went wide eyed at this and a little shocked as Ash then pumped his fist and shouted the next command, "Charge in with dragon claw!" Sceptile then made his green scaly claws and as the shards came, he hi them away and twisted while making several barrel rolls before then slamming his blades into the top of Tyranitar's head to which Sceptile then fell back into the air in the direction of Ash. Ash then saw as Tyranitar lost his balance and looked dazed from the previous attack, so through the roaring crowd he put his arm in the ground and shouted. "FRENZY PLANT!"
"Tile!" Sceptile exclaimed as he charged up the attack. Sceptile then reeled back his fist: "SCEPTILE!" Sceptile exclaimed as he fell down on the rocky ground and instantly punched the ground with all of his might. Sceptile then watched as his monstrous plants veered out of the ground and then constricted Tyranitar, shocking Hunter as Ash smirked from the amazing damage that it should have done as then an explosion made a shock wave blast through the arena making Hunter shield his face as Ash did not flinch at all. The plants then retreated back to the ground and the result was an unconscious Tyranitar.
"Tyranitar is unable to battle," the referee then put his hand out to Sceptile and said. "This means that Sceptile wins!" at the same time Tyranitar was darkened down at the scoreboard and Hunter recalled his pokemon.
"That gargantuan finish has just put Ash's name on the board, this is beginning to get more heated!"
"YES!" Ash shouted as he pumped his fist along with Sceptile. Ash finally got the need he needed and Sceptile had just put him on the scoreboard. Ash then smirked, "Alright, now it is my turn to make a comeback!"
"Not gonna happen," Hunter declared as he threw out a pokeball. "Let's go Blaziken!" The fire chicken fell in front of Sceptile and gave a large battle cry which made Ash flinch a little and look up at Blaziken, who now had a red aura surround him meaning that blaze had kicked in. It was definitely going to go in stronger for round two, specially after his battle with Greninja.
At the stands:
"Alright, Ash took one down, that is good," Brock stated as he scratched his chin. "But he is still at a disadvantage with only four pokemon compared to the five that Hunter still has."
"Ash will win, I know it," Serena stated as he looked down and noticed as Sceptile took a super powered flamethrower head on, but was able to cut through with leaf blade. Serena then slightly flinched as she noticed that Sceptile began to glow red as in on fire and fell to his knees with great pain."
"And it seems that Sceptile has been burned! This may seem bad for Ash!"
Serena gripped her ribbon harder as she saw this and then noticed as blaziken kicked Sceptile in the abdomen with a blaze kick. Serena heard as the cheers got louder and louder to the battle as she saw the referee then raise his hand and declare Sceptile unable to battle.
"And Ash is now down to his last three pokemon! Hunter will be at a large advantage, specially after this field change!"
Serena watched as Ash recalled his Sceptile into red energy that then went back into the pokeball. After that, Serena watched as Ash whispered something into the pokeball to then put it on his belt. Serena then saw as Hunter also recalled his Blaziken back into his pokeball.
"This is bad, Ash is now down to three pokemon," Shaun said as Tierno and Trevor both looked stressed out. Calem clenched his fists and Clemont looked onto the field as it descended back down below the trainer platforms with a glare on his glasses.
"Now is the time for a field change! What field will we get next?"
"I think Ash has a strategy now, he knows all of Hunter's team… But it would take a lot of effort to get there," Clemont said with a serious tone. "Be careful Ash," Is the next thing that Clemont muttered under his breath.
At the battle:
Ash looked up at the scoreboard and noticed him being down three pokemon to five. Ash then looked at Pikachu who also had a worried look on his face. "Pikachu relax, I think I can do this."
"Pika?" Pikachu asked at his trainers bold words.
The crowd the cheered once more as Ash's attention was brought back to the new field that came up. It was a grassy field and Ash knew that it would be hard, but it was possible.
"So Ash," Hunter said with a smirk as he looked at Ash. "You liking my power right now?" Hunter then threw a pokeball out into the field while saying: "Go Electivire!"
"VIRE!" Electivire shouted as he landed on the grassy field and pumped and charged up electricity with his two tails. "ELECTIVIRE!" Electivire then shouted as he made a shockwave of electricity disperse throughout the hexagonal stadium, thus making the lights and scoreboard flicker a little before staying back on. At this the stadium cheered with excitement that could highlight how much the league was awaiting for this challenge.
Ash did not flinch as he saw this, but he narrowed his eyes as he said the next part, "My comeback starts now!" Ash then reached into his belt and picked the pokeball that he was meaning to choose and threw it towards the field. "I CHOOSE YOU!"
A/N: Next chapter will conclude this battle, but man, how will Ash pull himself out of this hole? I did not really need to put Blaziken against Sceptile in detail because it was a battle that was meant to go one sided towards Sceptile…
Anyways, the fate of this battle of top 16 will be revealed next chapter where Ash does his hardest to make a comeback… But how will he do it without his aces that have special abilities? Will he even be able to become victorious? These answers will be answered in the next chapter!
Remember to R & R and I will see you guys next time!
I know it has been a long time since my last update and I apologize again for being such a scum. Anyways, I will try to update the next chapter soon so that you guys can see what happens in Ash vs Hunter.